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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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